gin burglar

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A white man who sexually exploits aboriginal women

1971: Now and then you would meet fellows who ... would go from station to station, scrounging feeds and hanging about the blacks' camp looking for girls. They were known as combos, murlongers, or gin burglars. — K. Willey, Boss Drover, quoted in R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.

gin burglars
plural form of gin burglar
gin burglar

    Hyphenation

    gin bur·glar

    Turkish pronunciation

    cîn bırglır

    Synonyms

    gin jockey

    Pronunciation

    /ˈʤən ˈbərglər/ /ˈʤɪn ˈbɜrɡlɜr/

    Etymology

    () Gin in the (mainly derogatory) sense of an Australian aboriginal woman.
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